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The Upper Ganga Plain stretches over the western Uttar Pradesh and the Tfardwar and Udham-Singh Nagar districts of Uttarakhand. The July temperature varies between 25°C and 35°C and that of January between 10°C and 25°C. The soil varies from sandy loam to clayey loam. Adequate facilities of irrigation by canals and tube well are available. Agriculture is well developed and Green Revolution is a big success in this region also.
Wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize, millets, pulses, oilseeds, and vegetables are the main crops. Mango and guava orchards are also quite significant in the agricultural landscape.
In order to make agriculture more productive and sustainable there should be emphasis on mixed cropping, horticulture, floriculture, judicious use of irrigation water, lining of canals, reclamation of saline/alkaline soils.